Don’t
get me wrong. Crystal wasn’t perfect
when it came to finding the right guy.
She just handled things a little differently. She didn’t let a guy fool her, nor did she
allow him to think he was fooling her. Crystal
had a boyfriend back in Del Sol Valley named Brian. Brian was a basketball player at DSVC. I was surprised when Crystal told me, because
I always thought that athletes were the biggest players in the world. I asked her about it one day while we were at
the Computer Lab in the Library.
“Girl how can you trust Brian in Del
Sol with all those hootchies?”
Crystal
turned away from the computer screen to look at me. “Depends on what you mean by trust.”
“You know… trust, knowing that he’s
not going to be out there screwing around.”
“In that case, I don’t trust him as
far as I could kick him.”
We laughed. “Well how can you be with him when you
don’t trust him?”
“Girl, I haven’t been with no
Brian.”
“You mean you never…”
“Hell, no. I don’t know where he’s been or who he’s been
with.”
“Well you don’t know that about any
guy.”
“Exactly.”
She went back to her internet search.
I thought about it for a
minute. “Crystal, you mean you’re
still…” I lowered my voice and leaned closer to her, “a virgin?”
“Exactly.” She didn’t look at
me.
“Are you kidding me?” I said louder
than I intended. Everybody began looking
at us. I lowered my voice again. “Why?”
She looked at me. “I haven’t met anybody worthy of it yet.”
I didn’t have anything to say to
that. I thought back to my first and he
damn sure wasn’t worthy. I looked at
Crystal with a new respect.
“You go girl.” I whispered turning
back to my computer.
Crystal
smiled.
A
week later, Crystal caught Brian cheating.
It was a Friday. I was at work on
a call with a prospective student. Crystal
walked into the Chemistry Department. I
didn’t expect to see her.
“Girl, what you doing here?” I
forgot I was on the phone, so I apologized to the caller and held my finger up
to let Crystal know I would be right with her.
I finished the call. “What you doing here?”
“I need you to come to Del Sol with
me.”
“Why?”
“I still can’t get in touch with
Brian.” The office phone rang. Crystal
looked at it. “You better answer that.”
I waved the call off. “They’ll call back.” I paused. “Why do we need to go up there?”
“I need to know what’s going on.”
“You know what’s going on.” The
phone stopped ringing.
“I
know but he needs to know that I know.”
“Ok.
I get off at three today.” A student walked in.
“Ok girl. Go ahead and take care of her. I’ll meet you at my room around four.” She
began to leave.
“Wait. How we getting to Del Sol?”
“Well, I have two hours to figure
that out, don’t I?” Crystal said smiling.
I
laughed. “Ok girl.” I said before greeting the walk-in.
At
three, I left work and went to my room to pack a few things up. Shante drove to Del Sol earlier that
day. She was the only person I knew that
had a car. I knew Crystal would figure
out a way to get us there though. I
grabbed my bag and went up to her room.
She was packing up a few last minute
things.
“So how we getting there?”
“You know that girl Dizzy, the girl
who lives down the hall?”
“Yeah. The one with the cat bones hanging over her
bed who wears black all the time?”
“Well
she’s going home this weekend, so we’ll ride up with her.”
I shook my head and sat down on
Crystal’s bed. “I don’t know about that.”
“Come on girl. Dizzy’s cool.
I go over there and hang out every blue moon or so.”
“Crystal, she has cat bones hanging
over her bed.”
“So.
You have Shante with her 7-11 legs next to yours.”
“Seven-eleven legs?”
“Yep. Opened 24 hours a day.”
I
didn’t even bother to ask Crystal what that had to do with Dizzy’s cat
bones. We were too busy cracking up all
the way to Dizzy’s room.
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